Executive Summary

• This week, the Coresight Research team is in Shanghai attending Asia’s fastest-growing consumer technology event, CES Asia 2018, which runs June 13 to June 15. This year’s event has attracted over 500 global companies exhibiting at the show and more than 40,000 attendees and over 1,200 media. This is the first of two reports on our key takeaways from the event, which features the latest product launches and transformative technology, including, artificial intelligence (AI), augmented/virtual reality (AR/VR) and vehicle technology.
• Kevin Ho, President of Handsets Product Line at Huawei, gave a keynote address, which centered on Huawei’s vision of the future of mobile images. Ho believes the breakthroughs in technology to capture images stem from humans’ aspirations in terms of recording, innovating and sharing.
• Smart cars and autonomous driving are taking center stage at CES Asia this year. User interface is also a key area of improvement that is being focused on. We expect autonomous-driving technology to first be applied in specific areas, such as at industrial parks and factories, before being rolled out to the general public transportation system.